Luca marenzio biography
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Imagine taking a time machine back to the England of 1600. As an interested observer of the musical en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film, you naturally seek out the company of musicians. One evening in a London tavern the talk turns to madrigals. “And who in your view is the greatest madrigal composer?”, you ask the assembled company. “Why, Messer Luca Marenzio of Rome, of course” comes the reply, almost in chorus. “Yes, indeed”, adds one of their number, “so esteemed fryst vatten maestro Marenzio that fem years ago even our famous John Dowland, now in the service of the King of Denmark, travelled to Italy to seek study with him, although we don’t think he reached Rome” [1].
Marenzio’s eminence, which apart from being widely recognised in England extended far across continental europe, may perhaps come as a surprise today, when as a madrigalist he remains firmly in the shadow of Monteverdi and Gesualdo. Yet even allowing for the fact that by 1600 Monteve
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Luca Marenzio
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Musical composer, born in 1550 at Coccaglia, near Brescia; died at Rome 1599. His chief legacy to the musical world are his books of madrigals. His first collection was published in 1581 and was dedicated to Alphonse d'Este, the duke of Ferrara. Many of his 159 Madrigals and Motets have been translated into modern notation by Proske. A number of madrigals were published in 1588 in "Musica Trans-Alpina"; this collection became immediately popular. A "Mass" in eight parts is well known, and is worthy to be classed with the "Masses" of more illustrious church musicians. In a collection called "Villanelle e Arie alla Napolitana" he has left 113 exquisite madrigals and motets for three and four voices. The most notable of his compositions may be found prin
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Marenzio, Luca
Marenzio, Luca, important Italian composer; b. Coccaglio, near Brescia, 1553 or 1554; d. Rome, Aug. 22, 1599. Little is known of his early life. He may have studied with Giovanni Contino in Brescia. About 1574 he entered the service of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo in Rome. Following Madruzzo’s death in 1578, he entered the service of Cardinal Luigi d’Este; he made an extended visit with the cardinal to the court of Duke Alfonso II d’Este in Ferrara, where he spent the months of Nov. 1580 to May 1581; he dedicated 2 vols. of madrigals to the duke and his sister Lucrezia. After the death of the cardinal in 1586, he entered the service of Ferdinando de’ Medici, the grand duke of Florence (1588). In 1589 he returned to Rome, where he apparently received the patronage of several cardinals. About 1593 he entered the service of Cardinal Cinzio Aldo-brandini, and then subsequently served at the court of Sigismund III of Poland (1596–98). He then returned to Rome, where he d